{"id":111229,"date":"2016-02-03T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T09:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=111229"},"modified":"2016-02-03T11:58:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T09:58:58","slug":"cape-town-municipal-manager-busted-for-r70-million-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/111229\/cape-town-municipal-manager-busted-for-r70-million-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town municipal manager busted for R70 million fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An administrator for the City of Cape Town has been arrested for allegedly defrauding the municipality of R70 million.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Hatting, his wife and third woman believed to be his girlfriend were all arrested, following an investigation by the Western Cape Hawks in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/local\/2016\/02\/03\/Costly-love-twist---Cape-Town-municipal-manager%E2%80%9A-wife-and-girlfriend-arrested-over-R70-million-fraud\" target=\"_blank\">TimesLive<\/a>, the trio were involved in tender fraud, where three companies owned by the group were awarded tenders to provide cleaning materials and refuse bags to the city.<\/p>\n<p>The tenders were between R900,000 and R45 million.<\/p>\n<p>The three suspects have been charged with fraud and corruption, and are out on bail of R50,000 each.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on corruption<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Corruption is ruining South Africa\u2019s democracy\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/110101\/corruption-is-ruining-south-africas-democracy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Corruption is ruining South Africa\u2019s democracy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to \u2018Unbelievable\u2019 letter shows blatant corruption in SA government\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/columns\/110139\/unbelievable-letter-shows-blatant-corruption-in-sa-government\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u2018Unbelievable\u2019 letter shows blatant corruption in SA government<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The biggest corruption problems in the world \u2013 and where they happen most\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/106557\/the-biggest-corruption-problems-in-the-world-and-where-they-happen-most\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The biggest corruption problems in the world \u2013 and where they happen most<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An administrator for the City of Cape Town has been arrested for allegedly defrauding the municipality of R70 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,3939],"class_list":["post-111229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111233,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111229\/revisions\/111233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}